Halloween Pictures!

Pumpkins!

Ava prepares for Halloween by doing her best pink ghost impression!

Waiting in line for a haunted house!

Ava is Ming Ming from The Wonder pets...she's not super duck!

She's also absolutely adorable! You wouldn't know that it took me almost ten minutes to get her into this costume because she was refusing to put her arms and feet in.

Whale Watching, Bears, Hiking OH MY!!

So I've always been intrigued with various oddities:
-I'm obsessed with Ireland
-I'm obsessed with Bed and Breakfasts
-I love whale watching
-Fireplaces
-I think I'd like to try spelunking
-Victorian Homes
-I like Jazz music and actually think I have a nice Jazz voice
-pumpkins make me happy

etc. That's not really a list just and odd bunch of facts. Larry and I put together a list of ten things we would like to do before we died. Not surprisingly since we are so alike we had a lot of things in common. One thing that he had on his list that I did not was to visit Denali park after the wolf cubs have been born. (This was ALLL pre Palin, so don't go there). I immediately needed to know more about it. While we were on the phone I was looking at the Denali state park website and checking out various other websites of places to stay and things to do and I am officially hooked! Since then I signed up for a B&B newsletter, which would alert me to hot deals in certain areas that you are interested in. They've been sending me some great deals which are just absolutely breathtaking. I mean Alaska really is a beautiful place...as long as you're not going during their summer (Mid May -Mid August) I don't do mosquitoes. There are so many things we want to do, many of which are listed above. I would love to take Larry Whale watching. I've been off the east coast when I was visiting New Brunswick. Then they have this tour where you can take a helicopter ride and see Black bears catching wild Salmon and playing by the rivers, and countless countless other activities. Including of course if we can, seeing the wild wolf cubs.

So I sigh a little at all of the beautiful B&B's that are sent to my inbox and dream about our Alaskan vacation!

I build stuff

This is Larry. So, I'm done laying down my laminate flooring and the only thing I have left to do is nail in the base shoe and repaint the baseboards. This Saturday night, I decided to build something I've always wanted to .... my own workbench. I found some plans I downloaded a few years ago. I modified some dimensions to make it a little taller to suit me. It's nothing elaborate, but it's nice and simple which is what I wanted. I'll post pictures of my workbench and my flooring for your viewing pleasure. Sarah helped me paint the room, so props go out to her. She did an amazing job of taping and painting. I've also got pictures of my bathroom renovations I did awhile ago. I ripped up the linoleum and installed some tile and replaced the vanity and toilet. Those were fun project.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

There's some other chick interviewing for MY job! And she's wearing a skirt...and no stockings!! NO STOCKINGS!!! I am wearing a crisp black suit with a classy white shirt underneath...AND I have my resume separated out in folders! Not cheap Manila folders...ACTUAL nice swaggy with a clear cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO STOCKINGS!

Deep Breath

This is one heckuva hectic week!
So I received a call back from the job I had applied for way back when. They had been pushed back because of AOP planning, so...I wasn't hearing much from the new prospective job...and surprise surprise I wasn't hearing much from the new potential promotion from my current position.

So as soon as I receive my call this week, I tell my manager to let her know that I have a 3 hour interview (I hope I get bathroom breaks). I email my boss's manager to ask him if it is okay to use him as a reference. He emails back saying of course, but that he would also: "Surely like to find a career path growth for you within Marcom Ops, if that's possible and of interest"

::Sigh::

While I appreciate that he wants to keep me on the team, why wasn't more urgency put into creating a promotion for me in the past few weeks? Why now when I am facing an interview? Well because the potential of losing me becomes that much more of a reality of course. But don't they realize that if I was offered this new position I would take it over just a "possibility of career growth within Marcom Ops?".

::Sigh::

I guess I'm frustrated because if I don't get this job I feel like trying to please me is going to die down again. And I'll have to fight twice as hard if I want to get them to push the promotion.

::Sigh::

Being politically correct has gone too far

This is Larry again.

You probably missed the story, but Sony has recalled a video game that it was getting ready to release very soon. Was it the violence? Was it the blood and gore? Was it the language? Nope. It was because "One of the background music tracks that was licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur'an". Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49J75I20081020

The game is called Little Big Planet and it's basically like Super Mario if you remember that from the old Nintendo. The cool parts about this game is that you can actually make your own levels and share them on the internet and solve the puzzles with your friends. So instead of having to hand your controller over to the next person in line, 4 people can play at the same time over the internet or even at your own house to solve these puzzles which require you to work together. I won't bore you with some of the other cool details about the game.

Back to my complaint... This is pretty ridiculous. Even the president of the non-profit American Islamic Forum for Democracy disagrees with this move by Sony. Source: http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/3978.html It wasn't even that the music was speaking negatively of the Islam or the Qur'an. It was quoting some of the writing and the song was even by a Muslim. I highly doubt that any Christians would object to a game that had music in a game and part of the music was quoting parts of the bible. Maybe those Japanese executives over in Japan don't understand the freedom of speech.

We're going too far to be politically correct. Make it stop.

The history of Chuck Norris' awesomeness

This is Maverick Larry here. So, I've made quite a name for myself on the internet. Oh, what? You haven't heard? There's a very good reason for that. In many circles, I'm quite the subject of people describing how awesome I am. However, due to my extreme modesty, I've decided to tell these circles to attribute these awesome "facts of awesomeness" to none other than Chuck Norris to help me keep a pretty low profile. Go ahead and google "Chuck Norris facts" later and see what you get. Now, lately, some people have enjoyed the show "24" so much that they've actually attributed these facts to Jack Bauer. Either way, you know the history of these facts, so you should feel privileged. Here are some of the latest facts that have surfaced on the internet. Enjoy.

• Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete.
• Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Chuck Norris can kill 100 percent of whatever the fuck he wants.
• Chuck Norris once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands.
• Chuck Norris was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when he managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.
• Chuck Norris can speak Braille.
• Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
• Chuck Norris owns the greatest Poker Face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 World Series of Poker despite him holding just a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game Uno.
• Once, while having sex in a tractor-trailer, part of Chuck Norris' sperm escaped and got into the engine. We now know this truck as Optimus Prime.
• If you spell Chuck Norris wrong on Google it doesn't say, "Did you mean Chuck Norris?" It simply replies, "Run while you still have the chance."
• Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors.
• Once a cobra bit Chuck Norris' leg. After five days of excruciating pain,the cobra died.
• Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting implies the possibilityof failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.
• Chuck Norris doesn't pop his collar, his shirts just get erections when they touch his body.
• Chuck Norris was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.
• Chuck Norris' dog is trained to pick up his own poop because Chuck Norris will not take shit from anyone.
• Giraffes were created when Chuck Norris uppercutted a horse.
• Chuck Norris can delete the Recycling Bin.
• Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soulback. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday ofthe month.
• When Chuck Norris gives you the finger, he's telling you how many seconds you have left to live.
• If it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken but Chuck Norris says its beef, then it's fucking beef.
• Chuck Norris doesn't have hair on his testicles, because hair does not grow on steel.
• Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris
• If you play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, you will hear Chuck Norris banging your sister.
• Chuck Norris secretly sleeps with every woman in the world once a month. They bleed for a week as a result.
• Bill Gates lives in constant fear that Chuck Norris' PC will crash.
• Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
• Ghosts are actually caused by Chuck Norris killing people faster than Death can process them.
• Chuck Norris has to maintain a concealed weapon license in all 50 states in order to legally wear pants.
• Chuck Norris is the only person on the planet that can kick you in the back of the face.
• Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.
• The best part of waking up is not Folgers in your cup, but knowing that Chuck Norris didn't kill you in your sleep.
• Chuck Norris is always on top during sex because Chuck Norris never fucks up.
• A rogue squirrel once challenged Chuck Norris to a nut hunt around the park. Before beginning, Chuck simply dropped his pants, instantly killing the squirrel and 3 small children. Chuck knows you can't find bigger, better nuts than that.
• Brett Favre can throw a football over 50 yards. Chuck Norris can throw Brett Favre even further.
• Chuck Norris never retreats, he just attacks in the opposite direction.
• Chuck Norris once punched a man in the soul.
• Chuck Norris keeps his ID on the bottom of his right foot. Nobody ever asks him for his ID.
• Chuck Norris can drown a fish.
• Chuck Norris can create a rock so heavy that even he can't lift it. And then he lifts it anyways, just to show you who the fuck Chuck Norris is.